Salvador Dali Quotes - Page 3

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• You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

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  Girl, Creativity, Boys

  Dali interviewed by Victor Bockris, 1974.

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• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

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  Funny, Witty, Work

  1942 The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|¤, prologue.

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• People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

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  People, Painting, Mystery

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• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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  Success, Jealousy, Artist

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• God is just another artist, like me.

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  Artist, Like Me

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• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

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  Art, Secret, Criminal Mind

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.315, Courier Corporation

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• Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

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  Children, Heart, Perfection

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• I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

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  Forever, Genius, Live Forever

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• I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

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  Lobster, Telephones, Restaurants

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• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images.

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  Hungry, Thirsty, Concrete

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• I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

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  Fear, Firsts, Canvas

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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  Clever, Flower, Men

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

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  Desire, Gates, Repulsion

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• The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

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  Youth Of Today, Today, Youth

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• I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.

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  Teaching, Average, Giving

  "Diary of a Genius". Book by Salvador Dali, pp. 5-6, 1964.

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• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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  Cheating, Art, Honesty

  "People" Magazine, September 27, 1976.

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• It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

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  Art, Serious, Knows

  "Diary of a Genius" by Salvador Dali, Creation Books, (p. 12), 1998.

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• Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

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  People, Needs, Littles

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• Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

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  Genius, Madness

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• Happy is he who causes a scandal

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  Scandal, Causes

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• The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

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  Time, Space, Watches

  1969 Conquest of the Irrational.

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• Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

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  Communist, Painter

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• I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality.

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  Believe, Reality, Confusion

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• Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.

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  Mean, Reality, Osmosis

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• Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

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  Art, Vanity, Entertainment

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